Bring me sunshine
Subtitle: a windswept, rain-soaked, sun-kissed, snow-capped guide to our weather
By: Charlie Connelly
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781408703243; 9780748125951
Subjects: Social aspects; Climate; Weather; Climatology
Description: We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates, confounds and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather, but how much do we really know about it? In Bring Me Sunshine, Charlie Connelly sets off on the trail of our island obsession. He breezes through the lives of meteorological eccentrics, geniuses, rainmakers and cloud-busters and brings vividly to life great weather events from history. He sheds light on Britain's weirdest wind, why we have the wettest place in England to thank for the trusty pencil, the debt that umbrella owners owe to Robinson Crusoe and why people once thought firing cannons at clouds was a great idea.